The One with the Seize the Day Card

Friday, March 11, 2011

I made this card for the Create blog a couple weeks ago. It's a friendly reminder to SEIZE THE DAY!I just can't get enough of banners. I don't know if I'll ever grow tired of this trend.

How to: Start with a cream cardstock card base. Trace a round object onto yellow white/pink polka dot paper, cut it out, adhere it to the top left corner then trim the excess. Straight stitch around the card edges using white thread. Hand draw a scalloped border with a brown pen under the bottom line of stitching. Trim down a "seize the day" sentiment tag (which AC calls Bits) and set aside. Cut different lengths of washi tape (or as AC calls it, Mixtape), fold each piece in half over a piece of white string, then notch the bottom ends of the washi tape to create pennants. Leave a gap for the sentiment then adhere the banner around the curve of the patterned paper. Add the sentiment tag in the gap. Place a dimensional flower sticker (aka a Detail) on top of the patterned paper and call it good!

welcome!

I’m from Seattle. Chris is from Denver. We met at BYU and got married in 2007 in Nauvoo, IL. Chris graduated from the USC School of Dentistry in 2013 through an Army scholarship and then we were stationed in Grafenwöhr, Germany for 4 years! We visited 43 countries while living in Europe and miss it every day! We now live in Littleton, CO where Chris works at his dream job as a dentist at Old Town Dental. I’m a stay-at-home-working-mom to our son Fox and daughter Jane. Scrapbooking is my passion and I have my own signature collections with Pink Paislee calledFANCY FREE, TAKE ME AWAY, OH MY HEART, TURN THE PAGE, PICK-ME-UP, WHIMSICAL, HORIZON, & TRULY GRATEFUL. I’m a teacher at Big Picture Classes, on the Scrapbook & Cards Today design team, I make and release 10 new Silhouette cut files every week, and I have an Etsy shop on the side. I love teaching in-person scrapbooking and bookbinding workshops whenever and wherever I can! Thanks for stopping by!